Undergraduate Experiential Learning

By engaging with the communities where they live and work, college students have unique opportunities to learn how community structures and social systems contribute to conflict and how they can help resolve it.

Information about Internships and Experiences 

The Experiential Learning Centers provide several opportunities for community-based engagement in conflict transformation during the academic year and over the summer, both individually and in cohorts. Students who engage across our experiential programs convene together before, during, and after their programs to build understanding of conflict transformation, build CT skills, and reflect on their learning and next steps.

The Center for Community Engagement shares CT program details on their website here. Below are a summary of programs:

• Cross Cultural Community Engagement Grants
• History in Translation
• Middlebury Alternative Break Programs
• Privilege & Poverty Academic Cluster
• Projects for Peace
• Service Translation

The Center for Careers and Internships offers several internships, career treks, and programs during the school year:

• Internships: Funding for winter and summer internships, individually and in cohorts.
• CT-themed Career Treks help students explore CT career pathways through site visits, alumni connections, and job shadowing (hosted over breaks).

The Innovation Hub supports two summer CT programs:

• Projects for Peace: Students individually or in small groups can apply for a grant up to $10,000.  
• Middlebury Social Impact Corps is a partnership-based program that connects students to social change through unique experiential learning opportunities. A select cohort of Middlebury College (Interns) and MIIS graduate students (Scholars) are matched with a community partner focused on impact within a local/regional context (spring applications).